Manager, Medical Evidence & Information

Medtronic • Mounds View, MN

1d • $132,000 - $198,000 • Onsite

About The Position

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. A Day in the Life The Cardiac Rhythm Management operating group is a division within Medtronic focused on developing and manufacturing medical devices and solutions for the management of cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure. This group’s product portfolio includes implantable pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices, and remote monitoring systems. CRM’s mission is to improve patient outcomes and quality of life by providing innovative therapies for the detection, prevention, and treatment of abnormal heart rhythms. The group collaborates closely with healthcare professionals and leverages advanced technology and data-driven insights to drive improvements in cardiac care. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This position will be based in Mounds View, MN. The Manager, Medical Evidence & Information leads a staff that is responsible for clinical evaluation and medical information. This role ensures alignment across evidence generation, scientific content development and external communication to support product safety, performance, and general use data. The role involves managing a wealth of information about products and treatments, ensuring that accurate, evidence-based, and up-to-date information is readily available to regulators, healthcare professionals, and patients. Success in the role depends not only on deep scientific knowledge but also on effective communication, strategic thinking, and operational leadership. The manager fosters collaboration, drives operational excellence, and ensures timely, accurate, and strategic dissemination of medical and scientific information. Expert in verbal and written scientific communications, scientific literature search, synthesis, and communication; and global medical device regulatory processes. Skilled in customer interactions, including working directly with physicians to answer complex technical and medical questions to ensure patient safety.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum of 5+ years of clinical research, medical information, medical writing or engineering environment or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years clinical research, medical information, medical writing or engineering experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing people
• Demonstrated knowledge of physiology and/or applicable disease states, medical terminology, CRM therapies and technologies
• Advanced degree in life sciences, medicine, or a related field (e.g., MS, MD, PharmD, PhD).
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills
• Familiarity with off-label requirements and policies as well as international regulatory requirements and knowledge of standards relevant to clinical evaluation concepts (e.g. ISO 14155, ISO 14971, MedDev 2.7.1 rev 4, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors
• Demonstrated ability to coach team on how to translate various types of technical and clinical data (including engineering and marketing data) into a device safety and performance context across technology types and therapeutic areas
• For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop team members across Medical Information and Clinical Evaluation groups.
• Oversee staff, processes and functional practices to ensure evidence SMEs are adequately planning and implementing Clinical Evaluation requirements, Corporate Off-Label policies and responses to medical inquiries.
• Ensure consistency and scientific rigor in evidence communication across internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional managers and leaders across Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, R&D, etc., to ensure alignment on resourcing, evidence needs and funding.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and enhance cross-functional impact.
• Develop forward-looking functional recommendations to proactively identify opportunities for strategic dissemination that optimize healthcare professionals access to scientifically sound and balanced information
• Translate complex scientific and medical information into clear, accessible language for diverse audiences, including clinicians, healthcare providers, patients, caregivers, and regulators.
• Manage performance of staff including promotion and rewards planning, hiring and performance management as needed
• Provide periodic communication to senior leaders, particularly in areas requiring negotiation of challenging topics (e.g., regulatory issue or changes, impacts to schedules and budgets)
• Develop and/or manage functional KPIs that demonstrate the impact and value of the team

Benefits

• Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
• A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
• Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
• Incentive plans, 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees